In a mysterious cabin on the battleship Kunlun, a group of soldiers who can be said to be the most mysterious in this era are busy and nervous, calculating and analyzing the numbers transmitted back by various observation instruments into the firing parameters of the guns, and then transmitting them to the turrets everywhere, they are the brains of this battleship, their status is even more important than the captain, these shooting commanders are all real protégés of the Son of Heaven, personally educated by His Majesty the Emperor, as for the many instruments they use now, In this era, it can be called science fiction.

In order to keep it secret, this kind of shooting command is only equipped with two ships, Kunlun and Qinling, and even the Taihang and Wuyi ships in the Americas do not have this set of things, and now these two sets of things will determine the victory or defeat of this war. The war was practically over when the two battleships of the Chinese Navy, fifteen kilometers away, with a rate of fire of more than three rounds per minute per shot, poured shells on their opponents.

The 280-millimeter piercing bombs with delayed fuses and filled with dozens of kilograms of black solgen and thermite easily penetrated the armor of the Charlie Martel and Bouvet one after another, and then shattered the steel, life, and hope of the French to retake Vietnam with the terrifying force of the explosion.

And their opponents have no power to fight back.

This scene on the sea stunned the other warships that were fighting, and even on the Chinese Navy's own warship, officers and sailors were watching this battle with incredible eyes, which could not be called a battle.

The two French battleships with a displacement of 12,000 tons were turned into a sea of fire in just a few minutes, and by this time they had not even been able to fire even a single shell at their opponents, but fortunately, the quality of these two battleships was still good, although they had been beaten miserably, but they still stood tenaciously on the sea, like two huge beacons, telling their bravery with thick smoke and fire. Or helplessness.

After recovering from the shock, those French battleships abandoned their opponents like crazy, disrupted their formations and rushed at full speed to their flagships and fleet commanders, trying to save them from a desperate situation, especially those high-speed destroyers, who did not even bother to fight back against the Chinese destroyers that attacked them, and pounced on the Kunlun and Qinling like a pack of red-eyed hungry wolves, trying to rush to range and then fire deadly torpedoes.

It's a pity that they are also too whimsical, although there is no shooting commander, it does not mean that other Chinese warships can be ignored. Especially the large destroyers that were built specifically to deal with them, these warships were like proud mastiffs guarding the perimeter of the two ships of the Kunlun, sending one French destroyer after another to the bottom of the sea with a storm of shells, and in just a few minutes, four French destroyers actually sank into the sea.

The armored commander of the battleship Charlie Martel, Admiral Gervais, watched this scene with great sadness and indignation, and while feeling sorry for those brave soldiers, he could not help but regret his own rashness, in fact, he should know the strength of these two perfect battleships. After all, many French engineers paid to participate in their construction, and even now there are six similar warships under construction on the French slipway, but why do you want to fight them to the death?

He could only put it down to his own obsession.

At this time, the fire flickered again outside the command tower. Almost simultaneously, the 12,000-ton ship shook violently, letting out an overwhelmed groan, and he staggered to his feet against the bulkhead. Looking at the ten cannons in the distance that were constantly spewing flames, he knew very well that he had lost the naval battle, just as the first shell flew from seventeen kilometers away and pierced through the deck armor and exploded inside the battleship. He understood that.

Such a distance not to mention hitting the target, on his battleship, even if the 305 main gun with the longest range is raised to the maximum elevation angle, loaded with the largest amount of propellant, and at the risk of exploding, it may not be able to hit, the other party has its own unattainable speed, unreachable main gun range, and even unattainable power, nitrocellulose definitely does not have such a terrifying power, looking at a second-level main gun that has just been blown up outside, he is very clear about this.

Battleships play with technology, and when all technical indicators are lagging behind in an all-round way, how can such a battle be fought?

"Retreat, order all ships to retreat immediately and retreat to Kampong Son Bay!" Almost subconsciously, the commander of the French expeditionary fleet shouted to his chief of staff.

The chief of staff was stunned for a moment, although he also understood that the situation was not good now, but it was only ten minutes after the start of the war that he fled, which is too exaggerated, right? Fortunately, he didn't question it like this, but said a little unwillingly: "Your Excellency Commander, we can still let the Far East Fleet come out, the two fleets will converge, and we still have the strength to fight a decisive battle." ”

"A decisive battle? What kind of decisive battle do we take, if we continue like this, how long do you think the Charlie Martel can last, we are now completely a target, we can't catch up, we can't hit, and even if we can hit, we can't penetrate their armor, we are a target ship in their eyes, once we are sunk, what do you think will happen to other warships?

Do not fantasize about the Far Eastern Fleet, they can't come out, they can't come out, we can't win this war, procrastination will only make more of our soldiers die in the sea! Gervais said somewhat painfully, as to whether he was afraid that he would also be buried in the sea, no one could know this, and as soon as he finished speaking, he heard two loud noises suddenly on the sea in the distance.

The two hurriedly followed the sound, and the two protective cruisers were slowly sinking into the sea with flames covered in flames, and opposite them, two already notorious Princess-class armored cruisers were showing off their might, since the Spanish-American War in 1897, this kind of 7,000-ton armored cruiser can be said to be in the limelight, and countless battleships hated their eight 240 rapid-fire guns, of course, all of them were American.

The pitiful dome armor of the protective cruiser may be enough in the era of black medicine, but in this kind of demon-class armored cruiser, in front of the antimony charge of the 240 piercing bomb, it is not much stronger than a wooden plank, because of the difference in the number of warships between the two sides, the two princess-class armored cruisers have nothing to do at the moment, and as a result, they ran to the middle of the six Canglong-class armored cruisers, and the French protective cruisers on the sea were killed without any sense of honor.

"Retreat, retreat immediately!" The sinking of these two protective cruisers completely crushed Gervais's courage, he did not hesitate to repeat his order again, the chief of staff reluctantly conveyed his order, with the signal flag raised by the flagship, all the French battleships in the bitter battle immediately turned around and fled towards Kampong Johnson Bay, in fact, at this time, those French captains and sailors, have also been beaten, whether it is Joan of Arc or Quidun, when they are fighting their own genuine as copycats, they are almost one-sided beaten.

Whether it is firepower or armor protection, the fastest speed, there is a big gap between the two sides, although the battle is not long, but these French battleships are all scarred, and their opponents, the vast majority of them do not even have any damage, this is a desperate battle, it is not at all courage and honor can make up for it, so why not run?

But at this time, the battlefield is not up to them, if you want to run, you have to see if the Chinese agree or not, the speed is not as good as people still want to run? Just after the five French capital ships completed the turn, the four Kunlun ships of the Chinese fleet immediately chased after them like maggots attached to the bones, and the remaining French protective cruisers and the three Quidon-class armored cruisers were simply cut off by the Chinese cruisers led by the six princess-class Chinese cruisers, and then encircled to form a separate battlefield.

As for those destroyers, they have been completely disrupted at this time, many of these small warships are brothers, France because the demand is too great, its own shipyard is too busy, from Sweden ordered more than a dozen Viper-class, because of the reliable quality, all sent to Asia, and their sister ships are in the same room, and now they are fighting all over the sea!

However, Gervais no longer cares about them, now they belong to his father and mother, and everyone takes care of their own people, he knows very well that the three Quidon-class destroyers and most of the destroyers, because they all have a high speed of thirty knots, may be able to escape, after all, it is not far to Kampong Son Bay, and they sail at full speed for an hour, but the remaining four twenty-knot protective cruisers cannot escape no matter what, they have neither speed nor armor, and it is a complete tragedy on such a battlefield, As if to confirm his inference, another protective cruiser was bombed into slag.

"Send a message to the Quidon and order them to break out at once, and leave no one else." Despite knowing that it was cruel, Gervais gave the three Kwittun-class armored cruisers the order to retreat individually.

"In addition, order the Joan of Arc and the Poseo to also speed up their detachment from the formation, and retreat in formation with the three ships of the Quidon class." After a moment's hesitation, he gave another order.

The Joan of Arc and the Poseo, who were working together to deal with the Emei in the back, immediately left the three ships of the Charlie Martel and accelerated towards the three Kweidun-class ships that had just rushed out with a body of flames in the distance.

"Order the Emei to leave them alone, concentrate on killing these three battleships first, inform the ships of the Haiqiao not to chase them, and solve the rest." Liu Buyun on the Kunlun sneered and said that he didn't care whether the five warships escaped or not, even if they escaped into Kampong Xun Bay, the result would only be to stay inside and wait as prisoners, maybe after this war, the Chinese Navy would add another prisoner ship. (To be continued......)